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Time Over Matter: Diachronic Perspectives on Morphosyntax

edited by Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway King
CSLI, 2001
Cloth: 978-1-57586-281-1 | Paper: 978-1-57586-282-8 | eISBN: 978-1-57586-921-6
Library of Congress Classification P290.T56 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 415

TOC

    Contributors
    Preface and Acknowledgements
    1. LFG as a Model of Syntactic Change
    Nigel Vincent
    2. The Development of a New Passive in English
    Cynthia Allen
    3. Perception and Raising Verbs: Synchronic and Diachronic Relationships
    Julia Barron
    4. A Reexamination of the Accusative to Ergative Shift in Indo-Aryan
    Miriam Butt
    5. Representation and Variation: On the Development of Romance Auxiliary Syntax
    Christoph Schwarze
    6. Preferred Word Order and the Grammaticalization of Associated Path
    Jane Simpson
    7. Language Change, Lexical Features and Finnish Possessors
    Ida Toivonen
    Subject Index
    Name Index
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